Let's take stock of what major events happened in the automotive circle on December 31, 2021.
Automobile event one: Dongfeng Fengshen announced its annual sales volume in 2021
Before it bottomed out in December, Dongfeng Fengshen released its annual sales of 121,570 vehicles, an increase of 73% year-on-year, exceeding the previously set sales target of 120,000 vehicles.
In terms of product creation in 2021, Dongfeng Fengshen focuses on the "Yixuan family", of which Yixuan's price threshold is slightly lower, mainly focusing on young people; Yixuan GS is widely favored by young fashion women, and Yixuan MAX focuses on performance and sports. It has also launched special edition models such as Yixuan MAX Super Cool Tide Dad Edition, Yixuan Hunting Knight Edition, Yixuan GS Chasing Samurai Edition, And Dark Night Yixuan MAX, which have attracted much attention. In addition, it has also launched the E70 in the B-end market, which has already reached 30,000 units in 2021.
In December, Dongfeng Fengshen's new SUV was named "Haoji", the first SUV model based on Dongfeng Group's DSMA advanced modular architecture platform, and is scheduled to be launched in the second half of 2022
Automobile incident two: Geely Lifan joint venture layout replacement power station
On December 30, the planning of the joint venture company established by Geely and Lifan was exposed, which will build more than 5,000 high-speed substations by 2025, covering more than 100 core urban cities, in addition, the two sides will launch a new power replacement brand, and launch the "Wake Up Freedom 2022" tram replacement system global name campaign.
The joint venture between Geely and Lifan mainly provides a complete set of solutions for B-end and C-end users, including power exchange products and power exchange services. Geely and Lifan joint venture will adopt the GBRC platform (Global Battery Rapid Change), which has strong compatibility and can adapt to a wide wheelbase range of 2700~3100mm, covering many categories such as cars, SUVs, MPVs and even logistics vehicles and light trucks, to meet the needs of different markets such as online car-hailing, private car, taxi, logistics vehicle and so on.
Automotive Incident Three: Li-Cycle's new technology extracts about 95% of valuable materials
A few days ago, Li-Cycle, a new energy battery recycling company in the United States, issued a statement saying that its "Spoke and Hub" proprietary recycling method is cost-effective and can help battery manufacturers reduce costs.
According to Li-Cycle officials, the technology, regardless of the size or shape of the battery, can be crushed by a mechanical process, resulting in two raw material lines. The first is black powdered positive and negative scrap consisting of lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, copper and aluminum. The second is scrap aluminum and copper scraped from insulating or conductive foils. Then, after another recycling process, these black powdery wastes are converted into high-quality lithium carbonate of the desired purity for use in cathode precursors and production processes. Through this process, cobalt sulfate and nickel sulfate can also be produced.
Automobile incident four: SAIC-GM adjusts the production capacity layout of Wuhan vehicle base
A few days ago, some domestic media reported that SAIC-GM will upgrade the Wuhan vehicle production base, and the total production capacity of the factory will remain unchanged after the technical transformation, the main changes are: "reduce production of K216, increase the production capacity of electric vehicles." The model code-name K216 is Chevrolet's Kowartz on sale, the existing production capacity is 180,000 units / year, after increasing the production capacity of electric vehicles, it will reduce production by 160,000 units / year, a sharp decrease of nearly 90%.
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